6 Interesting Facts About Hillary Clinton's Christian Faith

(Photo: Reuters/Mike Segar/Files)

By Sami K. Martin , Christian Post Reporter

Former
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a news conference
at the United Nations in New York in this March 10, 2015, file photo.
Hillary Clinton announced her campaign for the Democratic presidential
nomination in 2016 on Sunday, April 12, 2015.

Hillary
Clinton wants to be president of the United States, but what actually
guides her? The only currently declared candidate for the Democratic
ticket was raised in the Methodist tradition and continues to practice
that faith today. Here are six interesting facts about Clinton's faith
as it relates to her candidacy and personal life.1) Clinton was raised in the First United Methodist Church in Park Ridge, Illinois, and wrote in her book It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us that
"religion figures in my earliest memories of my family. Our spiritual
life as a family was spirited and constant. We talked with God, walked
with God, ate, studied and argued with God. Each night, we knelt by our
beds to pray before we went to sleep."After winning the
presidential election in 1996, the Clintons attended Washington's
Foundry United Methodist Church, and Hillary participated in a
bipartisan prayer group for women.2) Social justice is a major part of Clinton's religious practice. "We
need a new politics of meaning," she said at a Texas convention in
1993. "We have to summon up what we believe is morally and ethically and
spiritually correct and do the best we can with God's guidance.""The
Church was a critical part of my growing up, and in preparing for this
event, I almost couldn't even list all the ways it influenced me, and
helped me develop as a person, not only on my own faith journey, but
with a sense of obligations to others," she said at the 1996 United Methodist Convention.3) Clinton wants to change the perception that the Democratic Party is hostile to religion. "[It]
has been viewed as a part that didn't understand the values and way of
life of so many Americans," she said in 2008 at the CNN Compassion Forum.
"It's important that we make clear that we believe people are people of
faith because it is part of their whole being. It is what gives them
meaning in life."4) She believes the religious views of others must change to support legal abortion."Far
too many women are denied access to reproductive health care and safe
childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced.
Rights have to exist in practice — not just on paper," Clinton said on
April 23 at the Women in the World Summit. "Laws have to be backed up
with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes,
religious beliefs, and structural biases have to be changed."5) Clinton referred to religion both when she opposed and supported same-sex marriage."Marriage
has historic, religious, and moral content that goes back to the
beginning of time, and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always
been, between a man and a woman," she said in 1996, according to God and Hillary Clinton by Paul Kengor."One
of my big problems right now is that too many people believe they have a
direct line to the divine and they never want to change their mind
about anything," Clinton told NPR's Terry Gross during an interview in
2014 in which she said she now supports gay marriage. "We are living at
a time when this extraordinary change is occurring and I'm proud of our
country. I think that we have all evolved, and it's been one of the
fastest, most sweeping transformations that I'm aware of."6) Clinton once attended prayer meetings with Republican Senators Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum.While
a U.S. senator, Clinton attended a bipartisan prayer meeting, which
included some of the Senate's most conservative Republicans, like Sam
Brownback, Kan., and Rick Santorum, Penn.At one of those
meetings, Brownback stopped short of telling his testimony to ask
Clinton's forgiveness for the sins of feeling hatred toward her and
saying derogatory things about her, according to The Atlantic."I
came here today prepared to share about this experience in my life that
has caused great suffering, the result of which has deepened my faith.
But I'm overcome now with only one thought," Brownback said upon seeing Clinton in the meeting.After asking for her forgiveness, Clinton said she appreciated the apology and forgave him.Ever
since then, Clinton found it easier to work with both sides of the
political divide, and even co-sponsored a bill with Brownback. She has
worked with conservatives and liberals alike, showing that she is able
to use her faith in the political realm to foster good for her causes
and agenda.

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